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        Four major dynamics in Gaza War that will impact 2026
    
Khaled Elgindy
Annelle Sheline
December 29, 2025

        Think a $35B gas deal will thaw Egypt toward Israel? Not so fast.
    
Elfadil Ibrahim
December 23, 2025

        Does Israel really still need a 'qualitative military edge' ?
    
Josh Paul
December 23, 2025

        Israel's all-seeing eye is the stealthiest cruelty of all in Gaza
    
Connor Echols
December 16, 2025

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        When Trump's big Venezuela oil grab runs smack into reality
    
Karthik Sankaran
January 04, 2026

        Why Russians haven't risen up to stop the Ukraine war
    
Anna Matveeva
December 25, 2025

        Congress quietly moves US closer to military draft
    
Edward Hasbrouck
December 16, 2025

        Tracking congressional criticism of Trump's attack on Venezuela
    
Connor Echols
January 03, 2026

        Listening to what regular Ukrainians are saying about the war
    
Jackie  Abramian
Artin Dersimonian
January 01, 2026
Europe
        Europe whistles past the Venezuelan graveyard
    Its tepid response to the US attack reinforces its weakness and undermines the case for defending Ukraine
Eldar Mamedov
January 06, 2026
Latin America
        What risk? Big investors jockeying for potential Venezuela oil rush
    
Nick Cleveland-Stout
January 06, 2026
Europe
        Despite the blob's teeth gnashing, realists got Ukraine right
    
Mark Episkopos
January 06, 2026
Latin America
        'Running Venezuela'? Hegemony is one thing, dominance is another.
    
Jorge Heine
January 06, 2026
North America
        Is Greenland next? Denmark says, not so fast.
    
Pavel Devyatkin
January 05, 2026
Latin America
        When Trump's big Venezuela oil grab runs smack into reality
    
Karthik Sankaran
January 04, 2026
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        US weapons stocks booming, CEOs gloating after Maduro toppled
    Palantir founder says company exists to blow up communists in the Western Hemisphere
Stavroula Pabst
January 05, 2026

        After ousting Maduro, Trump and Rubio put Cuba on notice
    
Stavroula Pabst
January 04, 2026

        Regime change faithful toss roses at Trump after Maduro overthrow
    
Kelley Beaucar Vlahos
January 03, 2026

        Tracking congressional criticism of Trump's attack on Venezuela
    
Connor Echols
January 03, 2026

        ‘Locked and loaded’: Trump threatens to attack Iran
    
Connor Echols
January 02, 2026

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        Africa
    

        6 stories that defined Trump’s approach to Africa in 2025
    
Dan M. Ford
December 31, 2025

        Trump's Christmas Day strikes on Nigeria beg question: Why Sokoto?
    
Taiwo Hassan
December 28, 2025

        Guinea-Bissau: The ‘narco-state’ the US virtually ignores
    
Taiwo Hassan
December 19, 2025

        US capital investments for something other than beating China
    
Karthik Sankaran
Dan M. Ford
December 04, 2025
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        Latin America
    

        What risk? Big investors jockeying for potential Venezuela oil rush
    
Nick Cleveland-Stout
January 06, 2026

        'Running Venezuela'? Hegemony is one thing, dominance is another.
    
Jorge Heine
January 06, 2026

        South Florida: When local politics become rogue US foreign policy
    
Arturo Lopez-Levy
January 05, 2026

        When Trump's big Venezuela oil grab runs smack into reality
    
Karthik Sankaran
January 04, 2026
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        Europe
    

        Despite the blob's teeth gnashing, realists got Ukraine right
    
Mark Episkopos
January 06, 2026

        Europe whistles past the Venezuelan graveyard
    
Eldar Mamedov
January 06, 2026

        Listening to what regular Ukrainians are saying about the war
    
Jackie  Abramian
Artin Dersimonian
January 01, 2026

        Why Russians haven't risen up to stop the Ukraine war
    
Anna Matveeva
December 25, 2025
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        Is Greenland next? Denmark says, not so fast.
    
Pavel Devyatkin
January 05, 2026

        Trade review process could rock the calm in US-Mexico relations
    
Karthik Sankaran
September 15, 2025

        The rising US-NATO-Russia security dilemma in the Arctic
    
Pavel Devyatkin
September 11, 2025

        Trump takes US military one step closer to bombing drug cartels
    
Dan DePetris
August 11, 2025
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Israel's Wars

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Its tepid response to the US attack reinforces its weakness and undermines the case for defending Ukraine

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Palantir founder says company exists to blow up communists in the Western Hemisphere

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Middle east

It might have set back the Emirates' support some, but the STC secessionist movement is strong and still on a roll towards carving out a separate state

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It's not in line with the US military's historic tradition or ethical standards, and puts troops at risk

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Ukraine’s attempted suspension of its obligation threatens not just one convention, but the foundations of humanitarian law

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